[Peter T. Daniels]

I know nothing about Merge specifically, but doing it from a removable
drive is begging for trouble.

Copy whatever is on the flash drive to the hard drive you're using,
and it might work better.

On Aug 4, 8:24*am, Jet wrote:
I want to create a few (12 or so) merges with Access database, but
each time
i try and use them (on memory stick always different machine) I have
to
reconnect them

Who ever developed the absolute addressing instead of relative
addressing
should be shot

Any clues how to work around this?